For decades, northwest Aurora has been home to a large immigrant detention facility formally known as the Aurora Contract Detention Facility. Run by private prison company GEO Group through a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the detention center holds a wide range of immigrant detainees, including asylum seekers, undocumented immigrants with and without criminal convictions, and documented immigrants who are potentially subject to deportation because of criminal convictions.
The movie, titled The Facility, highlights the pain experienced by families who lose a loved one to immigrant detention, which often leads to deportation. I was just really overwhelmed by the stories I was hearing, says Flood, who lived in the encampment with families whose husbands, fathers and sons were detained across the street at the detention facility.
laura: we ve long told you about activist judges undermining trump s immigration policies, but this next story is outrageous. a district court judge in massachusetts is accused of helping an illegal immigrant snake out a backdoor to avoid being deported. [laughs] here s the back story. jose medina perez of the dominican republic was in court on drug charges and also faced a fugitive warrant for drunk driving. in a new audio recording obtained by the boston globe his defense attorney is heard at the bench with the prosecutor. judge shelley joseph, they raised doubt about whether medina-perez had been correctly identified by i.c.e. and whether he should be set free. listen. i don t think it s him. [unintelligible]
laura: we ve long told you about activist judges undermining trump s immigration policies, but this next story is outrageous. a district court judge in massachusetts is accused of helping an illegal immigrant snake out a backdoor to avoid being deported. [laughs] here s the back story. jose medina perez of the dominican republic was in court on drug charges and also faced a fugitive warrant for drunk driving. in a new audio recording obtained by the boston globe his defense attorney is heard at the bench with the prosecutor. judge shelley joseph, they raised doubt about whether medina-perez had been correctly identified by i.c.e. and whether he should be set free. listen. i don t think it s him. [unintelligible]